For the last post of the year, some xmas themed animation….Happy New Year everyone. A Charlie Brown Christmas http://www.hulu.com/watch/198677 Bob and Margaret – A Very Fishy Christmas, parts I and II and Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs Twas the Night…
Watching Animation
Sand animation: From analog to digital.
by Corrie Francis Parks • December 16, 2013 • 4 Comments
Sand animation has an immediately recognizable and definitive “look”. It is marked by textural gradients, visible fingerprints and other marks of the artist’s hands. Most notably, sand animation is a monotone technique, the colors scale limited to the variations of…
Report: Canterbury Anifest Awards 2013
by Chris Pallant • December 9, 2013 • 1 Comment
As a matter of background, Canterbury Anifest is now in its seventh year, and has welcomed speakers from Aardman, Double Negative, DreamWorks, Pixar, and The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, to name but a few. Each year, Anifest also hosts…
“The Girl With Leaves” and “A Birthday”
by Willie Hartman • December 2, 2013 • 1 Comment
La Fille aux Feuilles or The Girl with Leaves by Marina Rosset is beautiful. Among the many commendable short films that grace the festival circuit every year, there are some pretty recognizable archetypes. There are the films about overcoming a fear,…